Question
Answer: B. The paragraph diagnoses an error: people mistake the inexactness common to all language for a defect peculiar to translation, an error encouraged by the visibility of the translator’s labour. B states exactly this diagnosis. • Runner-up: A. Tempting because it parallels the paragraph’s structure (inexactness in both contexts). But A reads the conclusion as “translation is no more impossible than monolingual communication,” which states a true entailment but misses the explanatory move about visibility and misattribution that is the paragraph’s main work. True but partial.
• C. Too narrow: focuses only on the visibility point and treats it as the whole argument.
• D. Restates premises without the conclusion.
Detailed solution
Q19. Answer: B. The paragraph diagnoses an error: people mistake the inexactness common to all language for a defect peculiar to translation, an error encouraged by the visibility of the translator’s labour. B states exactly this diagnosis. • Runner-up: A. Tempting because it parallels the paragraph’s structure (inexactness in both contexts). But A reads the conclusion as “translation is no more impossible than monolingual communication,” which states a true entailment but misses the explanatory move about visibility and misattribution that is the paragraph’s main work. True but partial.
• C. Too narrow: focuses only on the visibility point and treats it as the whole argument.
• D. Restates premises without the conclusion.